PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Free I*ance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. anc * Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 711 Phone 4372 Managing Editor Tins Issue News Editor This Issue Sophomore Assistants Women’s Editor This Issue Graduate Counselor Junior Editorial Board—Benjamin M. Bailey, Fred E. Clever, Milton Dolinger, Larry T. Chetvenak, Robert M, Faloon. Robert T. Kimmcl, Robert E. Kinter, Richard B. McNaul, Richard D. Smyser, Donald L. Webb, Paul I. Wood- J.ind, Sally L. Hi&shberg, Helen R. Keefauvcr. Jane H. Mur j»hy, Mary Janet Winter. Junior Business Board—George J. Cohen, Richard E. Marsh, Philip P. Mitchell, Donald H. Shiner, A. Kenneth James B. Vosters. Jane L. Ammerman, Eugenia D. Rundick, Eathermae Hartos, Mary Louise Keith Business Staff—Credit Manager—Philip Jaffe ’43 ; Circu lation Manager—Robert E. Edgerly ’43; Classified Advertis ing Manager—Roy E. Barclay '43; Promotion Manager— Jack E. McCool ’43; Senior Secretary—Frances A. Leiby '43; Women’s Advertising Manager—Sara L. Miller '43; Assist ant Women’s Advertising Manager—Marjorie L. Sykes '43, Editorial Staff—Women’s Editor—Louise M. Fuoss '43; Managing Editor—Herbert J. Zukauskas '43 ; Sports Editor— Donald W. Davis ’43 ; Assistant Managing Editor—Dominick L.-Golab '43; Feature Editor—David Samuels '43; News Edi tor—Janies D. Olkein '43 ; Assistant News Editor—Robert E. Schooloy '43; Assistant Sports Editor—Richard S. Stebbins '43; Assistant Women’s Editor—Kathryn M. Popp *43; Assistant Women’s Editor—Edith L. Smith *43 ; Women’s Feature Editor—Emily L. Funk '43. Wednesday, May 27, 1942 It’s Up To You! It’s up to you! Yesterday, that campaign slogan was born in a Collegian editorial. For several weeks you, ;your roommate, your best triend will come face to face with that slogan as The Daily Collegian launches the most extensive subscription cam paign in its history. 'But, just what is behind that slogan? It means that The Daily Collegian has been frank enough to 'admit it will be under a terrific financial strain if it continues to publish daily during the Summer semester. In other words, q successful daily paper hinges on the outcome of the subscription campaign. If you subscribe, you will endorse the need for a daily paper. Looking in one backyard, you may be interest ed in knowing that the College has already en dorsed The Daily Collegian. Feeling that a daily paper is a necessity during the present emergency, the Administration has 'appropriated a small surfi which will help lessen the financial strain.' •In our own backyard, the Collegian has done its share by cutting entirely the compensation of all staff members. Only your backyard remains. There it’s up to you! The Collegian is not asking for charity or a handout; it is merely offering you an invest ment—an investment that will yield a dividend. Stop for one minute and consider how much you depend on a daily paper for important campus announcements. * But again, it’s up to you! We’ll Deliver . . . Old subscribers of The Daily Collegian will probably jump with glee at the present assurance and guarantee of regular delivery which the rap idly graying heads of this organization are now making. Despite a somewhat badly organized circula tion 'and the resultant complaints of the past we step forward boldly and make the following as oertions: This year’s delivery of the paper will be im ■provted beyond criticism. We believe this be cause of definite steps which have been taken to assure circulation. Each carrier who receives a complaint will be charged two cents fine. This irieans that laxity or carelessness on the part of :lhe delivery personnel will probably become nil. From the fund thus created the carrier with 'the best record will receive the total for the month. This system combined with warm weath er, absence of snow storjns, and freedom from school should insure delivery at the breakfast However, should the circulation go haywire on occasions when the printers ink has flowed too fast and sleepy heads refuse to leave their pillows The Daily Collegian has still another safeguard. Complaints received at the offices by 11 a; m. will result in delivery by noon! If this newspaper continues on a daily basis, although stories may be written on waste paper ■and staff members work day and night for noth ing more than the experience and dreams of \vh:'f might have boon if compensations had list hot. i, ol'minatod entirelv . . . then subscribers in the l :- guaranteed delivery ol e ,n he hap Milton Dolinger Richard D. Smyset Walter Fischmnn, Otto Reiser -Helen R. Keefauvei Louis H. . Bel) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN A Worm! s Eye View . . . We’re Still At It— It seems like such a long time ago that we hate to bring it up now, but when our angelic friend, Gabriel, (you remember him, no doubt: he’s the little guy who shoots a miniature comet down this column every Friday morning) .mantes caustic remarks about Mortar Board, we feel that some thing ought to be said in defense. Gabriel, we think you’d better make a bigger hole in that needle of yours so that you can see things better before you tell everyone that Mor tar Board is “piddling” around with defense pro jects. Mortar Board, Gabriel, is composed of a small group of women who hold their annual Spinster Skip in the women’s White Hall so that women may invite men to attend in order to raise scholar ships for women. In other words, it’s a women’s organization, and as such, it functions primarily in the interests of women. And Furthermore - - In so doing, it sponsors a freshman orientation program. These aren’t just words, Gabriel. They mean that Mortar Board puts a certain number of senior women in charge of different groups of freshman women, maps out a program for them, and takes charge of weekly meetings in which new freshmen are given advice and assistance concerning study habits, extra-curricular activi ties, customs, social functions, and a host of other things. If you think it’s wasted time, consult any of the freshmen who have received such assis tance in the past. And that ain’t all, Gabriel. Last year Mortar Board members, only 14 of them, managed to sell $l5 worth of defense stamps every week. If you think that six fifty-dollar scholarships raised from their Spinster Skip is a paltry sum, talk to the Penn State women who denied their support of the project toy failing to attend the dance. We don’t think that the fact that they set up two addiional 500-dollar scholarships for this year is exactly “piddling” either. Listen ‘Angel-Face’ Let’s get this straight, Angel-Flace; Mortar Board isn’t perfect. No organization is. But when we think of “piddling” we mgan giving teas and parties and making business meetings into bull sessions. Mortar Board doesn’t do this. Right now it’s' planning its annual dance, this year called a “Draftee Drag,” and, with student support, it hopes to m;qke even more than that ■paltry $3OO. And let’s remember that the Draftee Drag isn’t the only function that the or ganization intends to sponsor. Government Gets Worried WASHINGTON (ACPI— Government war agencies are worried sick about the growing shortage of college-trained physicists, chemists, engineers and other technicians. As quickly as experts in these fields are hired by some eager government department, Selective Service steps in to divert them to one of the military branches. The problem of shortages in critical occupar tions is two-headed. At the same time that war agencies find themselves unable to hang on to what men they are able to hire in scientific and engineering fields, young college men are apa thetic about applying for such jobs because they figure they soon will be drafted anyway. The new War Manpower Commission, headed by Paul V. McNutt, probably will soon take a crack at solving the dilemma. Look for the Com mission to attempt to work out with Selective Service an improved system of occupational de ferments in fields where the most pressing needs occur. A total of 28,800 college people filed to take the Junior Professional Assistant examination, filings for which closed April 27. Here is what will happen to the examination results: • The list of “eligibles” will be sorted into occu pational fields, and Civil Service will draw on tiie list as neejls occur in various branches-of the government. i Students who passed a similar examination giv en last January will got. first chance at jobs; eonscnuently. tiro April applicants cannot expect lighiniu" nation. Junior Professional Assistant jobs pay 52.000 unless an applicant indicates lie’s willing to take ’46 Campers Filling Quota Applications for Freshman men’s camp have been coming in to the PSCA office at the rate of twenty a day, Jerry Stein ’44, chairman of the camp committee, announced last night. So far 53 freshmen hav'e paid their registration fee to attend camp, next weekend, June 5-7. Since plans have bden made to accommodate only 100 freshmen, Stein expressed confidence in reaching the goal before next Monday. He added that his plans have already been completed and that it is now only a matter of waiting for the freshmen to appear on campus. However, restrictions on trans portation has made it impossible to secure buses to take the boys to the Diamond Valley camp, which is 18, miles from State Col lege. The only solution lies in the use of trucks or private auto mobiles. Design Show In Gallery The first exhibit of the Sum mer semester, a group of designs for “A Community Day Nursery,” is being shown in the College Art Gallery, 303 Main Engineering, through this week until May 30, J. Burne Helme, in charge of the division of fine arts, announced yesterday. The exhibit is being sponsored jointly by the College Library and the division of fine arts and in cludes the first three prize win ners in a national student contest for solution to a current problem. The contest was held, and the ex hibit is being circulated by the American Institute of Decorators. The drawings are done and ex hibited in pairs to show how each one serves as a solution to this problem made so important by the war conditions. Music Department Adds Opera Course An opera course, not listed in the catalogue or time-table, will be given this semester, the depart ment of music announced today. Attendance at the organization meeting in Room 201 Carnegie Hall at 4 o’clock this afternoon is the only prerequisite for the course. —FERDY Collegian Campaign (Continued from Page One) newspapers by noon. With this revised circulation set-up promising to increase still further the service of our college paper, the entire newspaper staff has united in a gigantic subscrip tion campaign to insure continued daily publication. Enthusiastic approval of the effort was express ed last night by official College and campus leaders. Typical of the comments was the statement made last night by Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the 'College. “The Collegian has earn d a place of importance in the life of this institution,” Hetzel said. “The staff is to be commended for this helpful contribution to college life during these war days.” See US For ... Ail Your Printing Needs NITTANY Printing & Publishing Co. 119 South Frazier St. Dial 4888 WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY PSCA Cabinet meeting, 304 Old Main, 8:15 p. m. American Chemical Society meeting, Room 119, New Physics Building, 7:30 p. m. Candidates for the junior board of LaVie report to 318 Old Main, 4 p. m. Louise. Homer Club meeting, 200 Carnegie Hall,' 5 p. m. Watch services at Wesley Foun dation, 7 a. m. Archery Club meets in Room 3 White Hall, 6:30 p. m. Reorganization meeting Campus ’44 in Old Main, 7 p. m. Campus ’45 meeting. Soph Hop committee announcement, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p. m. •Bowling Club meets in White Hall bowling alleys at 6:30 p. m. All coeds may attend. •Lakonides will meet in WiRA room in. White Hall at 6:30 p. m. Sophomore women will meet senior women in first interclass softball game on Holmes Field at 4:15. p.m. TOMORROW Coffee hour for State College High School seniors who plan to enroll at Penn State, 304 Old Main, 4 p. m. Old Main Open House commit tee- meeting in Room 304 Old Main, 4 p. m. Religious Study group meeting, Hillel Foundation, 7 p. m. College Choir rehearsal, 117 Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m. Sophomore candidates for Froth Business staff mbet in 2nd floor lounge, Old Main, 7:30 p. m. Men’s. Glee Club rehearsal, 117 Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m. Students interested in new opera course report to 201 Car nejgie Hall, 4 p. m. •Bible Study class at Hillel Foundation, 7 p. m. . Tryouts for Thespian show units will be held in Schwab Aud itorium,., 8 to 9 p. m. ‘College Days’ Radio Topic Penn State’s speech department will sponsor a series of nine radio programs on the theme, ‘College Days,” o.ver station WMRF, Lew istown, during the Summer months. The first in the series will be presented Thursday, June 4. Prof. Joseph F. O’Brien is in charge of the program which is entitled, “Study Hour.” Partici pants will be Robert S. MacNabb ’45, Earl R. Booser ’43, Louise M. Fuoss ’43, and Samuel G. 'Fredman ’43. Prof. John H. Frizzell, head of the speech department will speak during this program also. The second in the series is en titled, “College Activities,” with Prof. George Rice in charge. Carl H. Bergey ’45, Bernard M. Wein berg ’43, John B. McCue ’43, and Ruth L. Kiesling ’43 will partici pate. “Recreation,” is the topic for the third program. Harold D. Ep stein ’44, Carroll P. Blackwood ’44, Harry M. Vosburgh ’44 and Mar ion E. Fogel ’43 .will speak with Prof. Ralph E. Richardson presid ing. La Vie Calls Candidates A call has been issued for all juniors interested in trying out for the editorial staff of LaVie to report to 318 Old Main at 4 p. m. today, Martin H. Duff ’43, editor, announced yesterday.
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